Unit Seven: The Cold War
Essential Questions:
1. How does the United States’ culture reflect the political and economic changes in America starting with the
economic boom during WWII?
2. How does American’s role in WWII alter perceptions about its role in the post-war world and in future Cold
War conflicts?
3. How do fears of communist expansion alter the reality of democracy within America and the world?
4. How does the changing relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the post-war era affect
America’s political, economic, military, and social policies?
5. How does propaganda shape the American Identity?
6. How does propaganda change the relationship between people and the government?
Vocabulary & People
38 Parallel
Alger Hiss
Arms Race
Baby Boom
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Blacklist
Brinkmanship
Capitalism
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Communism
Containment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Détente
Deterrence
Domino Theory
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Harry S. Truman
Hollywood Ten
Hot Line
HUAC
Hydrogen Bomb
Iron Curtain
John F. Kennedy (JFK)
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
Korean War
Levvittown
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
Military Industrial Complex
Mutually Assured
Destruction (M.A.D.)
NATO & Warsaw Pact
Nikita Krushchev
Red Scare
Rosenbergs
Satellite Nation
Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI)
Space Race
Sputnik
Suburbanization
Truman Doctrine
United Nations (UN)
USSR
What to do with all the
information you know:
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Compare and Contrast
capitalism/communism and
US/USSR
Create a timeline for events
from the end of World War II
through the end of the Cold War
that demonstrates cause-andeffect.
Describe the events of the Cold
War and decide whether each
increased or decreased the
tensions of the Cold War.
Explain the major political
theories and doctrines of the Cold
War and relate each one to
specific people and events.
Compare and contrast the
foreign policy goals of the United
States with policy and reality at
home.
Describe how the United States
changed in the post-war era.
Identify the claim of political
cartoons from the Cold War using
supporting details.
Unit Resources:
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Sections from text:
Chapter 26, Chapter 27, 28.1, 28.2
Documents in Packet
Activities in Packet
Videos on Class Website